Articles
Plain-language guides to buying supplements you can trust, the forms and doses the studies used, and everyday health, each with its sources.
Buying smart
What can go wrong between the factory and your door, and how to tell a well-made supplement from the rest.
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The Supplement Quality Problem: What Testing Keeps Finding
Hidden drugs, wrong doses, heavy metals and copycat listings: what FDA records and lab studies show about supplements, and how to buy ones you can trust.
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Heat, Light and Shipping: How Supplements Lose Potency
Heat, humidity, light and long trips in hot trucks can weaken probiotics, fish oil and vitamins. What the research shows and how to keep them potent.
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How to Read a Certificate of Analysis
A certificate of analysis is a lab report for one batch. How to check the lot number, identity, potency, heavy metals and microbes, and who ran the test.
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How to Read a Supplement Facts Panel
A line-by-line guide to the Supplement Facts panel: serving size, %DV, the form in brackets, other ingredients, and what the label cannot show.
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Proprietary Blends: How Labels Hide the Doses
A proprietary blend shows one total weight but hides each dose. How the labeling rule works, what fairy dusting is, and how to spot a thin blend.
Forms and doses
Which form of a nutrient your body can use, and the doses the studies actually used.
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Bioavailability: Why the Form Decides the Dose
Two labels can list the same milligrams and deliver very different amounts to your blood. A plain guide to bioavailability and how to read a label for it.
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Magnesium Forms: A Complete Guide
What magnesium does, who runs low, and how citrate, glycinate, oxide, threonate and other forms differ in absorption, gut comfort and best use.
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Creatine: Forms, Dosing and Safety
How creatine works, why monohydrate is the form to choose, how to dose and load it, what it does for training, and what the safety research shows.
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Omega-3 Forms: Triglyceride vs Ethyl Ester
Why two fish oils with the same EPA and DHA can absorb differently, what triglyceride and ethyl ester mean, and how EPA and DHA differ.
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Supplement Timing: With Food or Without?
When to take vitamins and minerals: which need a meal with fat, which absorb less next to certain foods, and which minerals compete with each other.
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